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...Handsome Dan," the Yale bulldog that was so attractive to the Harvard Lampoon three years ago that they couldn't resist kidnapping him, is dead. He sustained a broken leg three weeks ago and unable to survive the accident because of complications, died last week...
There was no substitute for Handsome Dan on Saturday and Yale ingenuity was unable to make one up. Ducky Pond isn't so keen on mascots anyway, getting mildly irascible during last year's Princeton game when a bulldog that looked remarkably like his own was aired in the Palmer Stadium before the Princeton ganie. It was learned that it belonged to Ed Leader, Yale's crew mentor, and, at that, the score was too close for any degree of comfort...
Bought in 1933 by the Class of 1937, then Freshmen, he was officially baptized Handsome Dan '11, being named after the first Yale bulldog of that name who expired in 1899. He was paid for by small change contributions. He was paraded once before the Yale stands in 1933 and everyone agreed that he was a very handsome, but Yale lost the game, and they lost it to Harvard...
Also today on the Business School Field at 2 o'clock Captain George Hanford leads his twice defeated Yardlings against a favored Bulldog beaten only in its opening game...
...since his arrival in Cambridge, there hasn't been a Yale victory since 1933, that 14-13 major catastrophe last November; and perhaps most important of all, Albie Booth's last minutes drop kick which smashed the undefeated record of Barry Wood's team in 1931. Oh yes, a Bulldog pelt is always a welcome sight in the Crimson trophy room, but one was never more eagerly awaited than that belonging to this year's litter of "Ducky" Pond's invincible blue pups...